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This historic Site, located in Bartlett, includes the oldest home in Shelby County open to the public, thirty-two historic acres of surrounding land, and numerous outbuildings. These outbuildings include a former sharecropper's cabin, a restored commissary, and two nineteenth-century frontier-style cabins relocated to Davies Manor in 2006. In 2022, an additional building, a post antebellum schoolhouse, was added to the grounds.

Additionally, the property contains several gardens and an arboretum walking trail. Our current interpretive program consists of docent-led tours of the log home, a permanent exhibit on the history of slavery and sharecropping at Davies Plantation, and a self-guided walking tour of the grounds and outbuildings.

1975 – The Manor house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

1976 – A Century Farm Certificate was awarded by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, recognizing that the same family owned and operated the land as a farm for one hundred years or more.

1998 – Davies Manor received a Certificate of Merit from the Tennessee Historical Commission for “having made significant contributions to the preservation of the historical and architectural history of Tennessee.”

May 1998 – Davies Manor was certified by the National Wildlife Federation. The historic site and surrounding acreage is an official Backyard Wildlife Habitat, “providing the four basic habitat elements needed for wildlife to thrive: food, water, cover, and places to raise young.”

Davies Manor has received the Memphis Heritage Anna Stoner Award for preservation of a rural environment in an urban setting.’